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Criterion 2

Learning from Teaching: Activity Planning Tutorial

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:28 — kswimm

Murray Kopelow, MD, ACCME Chief Executive, walks you through an example of provider practices that would be in support of findings of “Compliance" for ACCME Accreditation Criteria through the application of the AHRQ Report’s Adult Learning Principles (ALP) Criteria in a "Learning from Teaching" CME activity. 

  • ACCME Tutorials
  • activity formats
  • activity planning
  • adult learning principles
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • AHRQ
  • Criterion 11
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 3
  • Criterion 4
  • Criterion 5
  • Learning from Teaching
  • new formats
  • self-directed CME activity
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Different Approaches to Planning CME Activities

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:27 — acantelmi

How can I effectively use the ACCME Criteria when planning my CME activities?

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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • activity planning
  • Criteria
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 3
  • designing for change
  • morbidity and mortality
  • needs
  • professional practice gaps
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Professional Practice Gaps and Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:10 — acantelmi

Do we need to have a unique professional practice gap for each session of a Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)?

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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • activity planning
  • Criterion 2
  • professional practice gaps
  • Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)
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Explaining Knowledge, Competence, Performance, and Patient Outcomes

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 12:58 — acantelmi

What's the difference between "knowledge," "competence," "performance" and "patient outcomes"?
 
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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • designing for change
  • knowledge
  • needs
  • patient outcomes
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
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Defining "Professional Practice" in Criterion 2 learners

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 08:26 — acantelmi

How does the ACCME define "professional practice"?

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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • Criterion 2
  • national data
  • needs
  • professional practice gaps
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Assembling a State-wide Partnership to Address Quality Improvement

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:52 — accmeadmin

Rosalie Phillips, Executive Director of the Tufts Healthcare Institute, talks with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive, about a regional initiative for improving care and the process of assembling a team of collaborators. (Recorded May, 2009)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • accreditation with commendation
  • Call a Meeting
  • CME as a Strategic Asset
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • coordination of care
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 20
  • Criterion 21
  • leadership
  • Needs assessment
  • patient experience data
  • Pay for Performance
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
  • quality improvement
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Measuring Improvement Using Clinical Measures

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 20:34 — breakthrough

Victoria Street, Director of Education at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), discusses a performance improvement-based CME initiative to address national performance measures with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive. (Recorded May, 2009)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • activity planning
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • designing for change
  • evaluation
  • expected results
  • guidelines
  • Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
  • knowledge
  • national data
  • patient outcomes
  • performance
  • Performance Improvement CME
  • performance measures
  • professional practice gaps
  • quality assurance
  • quality improvement
  • surveys
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Addressing Substance Abuse with CME (Part 2 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 19:36 — accmeadmin

Second part of discussion between Bertha Madras, former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and ACCME Chief Executive, Murray Kopelow regarding CME approaches to address substance abuse. (Part 2 of 2, Recorded July 2008)
 
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  • ACCME Interviews
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 4
  • knowledge
  • national data
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
  • scope of practice
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Addressing Substance Abuse with CME (Part 1 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 19:23 — accmeadmin

First part of discussion between Bertha Madras, former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and ACCME Chief Executive, Murray Kopelow regarding CME approaches to address substance abuse. (Part 1 of 2, Recorded July 2008)
 
Visit these resources for more information:

  • ACCME Interviews
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 4
  • knowledge
  • national data
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
  • scope of practice
  • Read more

Improving Care for Veterans (Part 2 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 18:54 — breakthrough

Part 2 of the discussion between Debra Curran, Associate Director of Continuing Medical Education at HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education in Minneapolis, MN, and Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive about a regional initiative to address an important professional practice gap for family physicians and other healthcare practitioners that treat U.S. veterans.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • accreditation with commendation
  • activity planning
  • CME as a Bridge to Quality
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • coordination of care
  • Criterion 11
  • Criterion 17
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 20
  • Criterion 3
  • Criterion 6
  • designing for change
  • desirable physician attributes
  • evaluation
  • format
  • leadership
  • non-educational strategies
  • own learners
  • professional practice gaps
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